Soldier Magazine: ten top tanks that have helped to shape history

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O Dinas Powys

13 September 2013, 07:19:48 PM #15
Quote from: Fenton on 13 September 2013, 06:26:52 PM
Once again the Tzar tank is shamefully overlooked

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(I know, even though it's fantasy  :o  ;)  )

petercooman

13 September 2013, 09:42:10 PM #16
Quote from: Fenton on 13 September 2013, 06:24:25 PM
Once again the Tzar tank is shamefully overlooked

Actually overlooking the tsar tank would lead to neck problems. As you would have to look immensly high not too see it  :P

Ithoriel

13 September 2013, 11:11:47 PM #17
Quote from: Fenton on 13 September 2013, 06:26:52 PM
Once again the Tzar tank is shamefully overlooked

Well, if we're going for fantasy tanks, where's the Land Raider or the P1000 Ratte? :P
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14 September 2013, 07:36:03 AM #18
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 September 2013, 11:11:47 PM
Well, if we're going for fantasy tanks, where's the Land Raider or the P1000 Ratte? :P
For the P1000 use a 28mm T34-85 with a 1/300th scale Bismarck turret (the actual turret looks like suspiciously like an 8" Hipper one), add 88 on rear hull. I built one out of a spare 20mm T34 for 1/300th.

That explain why Leon don't want it?

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14 September 2013, 08:35:34 AM #19
Quote from: sebigboss79 on 13 September 2013, 06:04:22 PM


The biggest joke is the Challenger tank, arguably the worst current tank. Besides a fantastic survivability the number of comparisons and trials the Challenger lost to even older Leopards (L2A4s!!!) surpasses the number of Challengers built. It simply failed to hit anything smaller than an aircraft carrier when moving. Not to mention anyone except the Iraquis would actually USE the firing computers AND move their bloody T55s in combat.

Absolutely unbelievable revanchist.  >:(

Then how do you explain the world record 5.2 Km knockout by a Challenger during the Gulf War? And has the Leopard (of any type) ever been actually tested in combat? I don't think so.
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14 September 2013, 09:05:06 AM #20
I guess the Abrams and other modern tanks are missing as this is a list about tanks that shaped history.  Modern tanks are in essence secondary, if not obsolete from a military perspective, and therefore don't really shape history anymore.  Do they?

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Fenton

14 September 2013, 09:09:28 AM #21
Is it meant to be tanks that have shaped history through their design or through the actions/battles they have taken part in
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17 September 2013, 01:55:07 AM #22
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 September 2013, 11:11:47 PM
... or the P1000 Ratte? :P

Coming soon....  ;)
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Ithoriel

17 September 2013, 02:00:12 PM #23
Quote from: Leon on 17 September 2013, 01:55:07 AM
Coming soon....  ;)

If only. Though I'd sooner have a Goliath team tbh.
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Leon

17 September 2013, 02:04:43 PM #24
Quote from: Ithoriel on 17 September 2013, 02:00:12 PM
If only. Though I'd sooner have a Goliath team tbh.

The Ratte 'tis indeed on the way, we saw some preview pics from the designer at Colours this past weekend.  It's an absolute beast as well, massive piece of kit!

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Ithoriel

17 September 2013, 02:38:14 PM #25
I guess I need to start saving! I only want/ need one and that's really only to scare the bejeezus out of my regular opponents the first time I put it on the table :)

Is there a Maus coming to the Pendraken range too? I need two of those .... though possibly only one turret :)
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Leon

17 September 2013, 02:40:07 PM #26
Quote from: Ithoriel on 17 September 2013, 02:38:14 PM
I guess I need to start saving! I only want/ need one and that's really only to scare the bejeezus out of my regular opponents the first time I put it on the table :)

Is there a Maus coming to the Pendraken range too? I need two of those .... though possibly only one turret :)

Yep, we've already got the Maus here, we just need to figure out the best way to produce it.  The hull needs to be in resin, so it'll have to go away to be moulded up and cast.
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17 September 2013, 02:47:59 PM #27
Quote from: Leon on 17 September 2013, 02:40:07 PM
Yep, we've already got the Maus here, we just need to figure out the best way to produce it.  The hull needs to be in resin, so it'll have to go away to be moulded up and cast.

Issue 12 of the SOTCW Journal (now available as part of a compendium) included a scenario featuring up to three Maus (as well as, potentially, X-7 ATGMs and JS-IIIs). It includes rules, and I've played it a couple of times, it gives a good game. There's a certain amount of randomness involved in the forces, so neither side can be completely sure what they're up against.
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Ithoriel

17 September 2013, 03:05:13 PM #28
The "Steel Panthers : World At War" computer game had a neat little scenario with a couple of Maus tanks and a varied assortment of other German stuff fought the Russians at Kummersdorf. I played it a lot, usually as the Germans. Normally I ended up like this:

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Matt J

17 September 2013, 03:12:53 PM #29
QuoteThe Ratte 'tis indeed on the way, we saw some preview pics from the designer at Colours this past weekend.  It's an absolute beast as well, massive piece of kit!

just did the math on this. The Ratte was suppose to be 115 ft long on the hull so that'll be about 20cm in 10mm scale, about 8cm wide and 6cm high. Just drew it on a peice of paper holy feck!
I want one, I want one, I want one.

I will never use it ever, but I want one, hell I'll have 2.
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